Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pretend it’s another charity you choose to support. It’s a great idea to prepare an outline to follow, or a script to rehearse, so that you’ll be confident, clear, and determined! That makes a request for donations so much easier and more painless! Okay, here’s one more technique that can work. Transition.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

You can see donors would respond positively were they to hear more from charities about the impact of their giving, and if they felt they were treated with appreciation for their support – at whatever level. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. Donor Negative ACTIONS. One week after gift: .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Charity Navigator has awarded Feeding America a four-star rating for ten consecutive years. When a gift comes in, the team member receives the donor’s details and a script to guide the conversation. Founder John van Hengel developed the concept of food banking when he was a soup kitchen volunteer.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

However, it’s important to first be honest: in today’s go-go world, it’s difficult for even the most cause-dedicated people to find the time to fully immerse themselves in a charity they’re passionate about. These tools can be simple, such as examples of fundraising emails, social media posts, phone scripts and even official logos.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2013

for storyboarding and sometimes scripts, to what kinds of equipment are. You'll learn some of the ins and outs of pre-production to create successful video stories for your nonprofit, charity, or public library. Register today , as space is limited!

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Not only do you have to pick the type of event, such as a charity golf tournament , gala, or bake sale, but you also have to decide if your event will take place in-person or virtually. For example, you’ll need to set up your lighting and music, design the layout of your event space, script your program, and more.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

As charities, we tell stories all the time—it’s how we show our donors their money is making a difference! Try writing a script with a two-column approach. Like all good stories, your final script should have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Still wondering if you have what it takes to tell a story through video?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You DO want to be their favorite charity right? It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started. That means thanking them well, giving them updates, and telling them stories about the work your nonprofit is doing in changing lives. I thought so.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. People just don’t have an attention span for anything much longer, so it’s important to keep it short to get the most from your fundraising videos. If it’s a captioned/narrated video, the background music is very important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Stephen’s Story was a campaign launched by Teenage cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton who passed away from cancer, but not before raising several million pounds for the charity as part of his bucket list. Both organizations had to embrace improvised leadership versus scripted leadership.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. Work from a list of prepared questions , but be prepared to go off-script if the donor goes in a different direction. Don’t try to wing a visit with a major donor.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

At FreeWill, we’ve seen not only a surge in estate planning, but also a rush to include charities in those plans. You see a sample phone script for this call here. A recent CNBC article reported: “Americans rush to make online wills in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.” Bequest giving on the FreeWill site in the past 14 months.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Find a way to organize your constituents either with a database product or if yours is a small charity, a spreadsheet with columns that allow you to keep notes about interactions and personal information. Create scripts and make the asks. Analyze, sort and prospect.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Support for automating Photoshop tasks through scripts written by developers. Choosing the Right Software.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2019

As we crawl into a new year, hyper-personalization is a buzzword slowly creeping into the charity lexicon and bound to increase its prominence as the year unfolds. And how can charities, like hospital foundations, use it to increase donor loyalty and generate higher return on investment (ROI)? Not very pleasant.

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

If they don’t fall over in shock at hearing from a charity they support, ask them to share with you a little bit about why they support your cause. Create a simple call script and get your board involved. Better yet, call a few of them up right now to thank them for their sustaining gifts and let them know how important they are.

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Network for Good

MAY 3, 2021

If they don’t fall over in shock at hearing from a charity they support, ask them to share with you a little bit about why they support your cause. Create a simple call script and get your board involved. Better yet, call a few of them up right now to thank them for their sustaining gifts and let them know how important they are.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

For me, personally, NTC was a great chance to see what my peers were doing, to find new ways for TechSoup to innovate, and also to hear where our fellow charities were struggling. scripting and editing videos and short films. So, Did You Get To Any Sessions? Marketing and communications for nonprofits is in a very exciting period.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2013

This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Support for automating Photoshop tasks through scripts written by developers. Choosing the Right Software.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. So sample scripts here could be, “Hey, I’m following up on our previous conversation. The donor video, I don’t know, Julia, I’m not going to give you a script for that.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

He found that 5% of one-time donors thought the charity didn’t need them, 9% had no memory of supporting, 13% never got thanked for donating, and 8% never had any information about how their gifts were used. Here’s the complete breakdown: 5% thought the charity did not need them. 8% got no information about how monies were used.

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Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

He found that 5% of one-time donors thought the charity didn’t need them, 9% had no memory of supporting, 13% never got thanked for donating, and 8% never had any information about how their gifts were used. Here’s the complete breakdown: 5% thought the charity did not need them. 8% got no information about how monies were used.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

People will try to tell you they don’t care if they don’t hear from charities for a week… a month… whatever. You can get my free Donor Thank You Calls E-Book + Script by joining me at clairification.com. If you don’t thank donors promptly, you’re destroying all the rest of your hard work. No arguments. Don’t believe them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

And, looking at the list, it's only US-based charities) He raises a great question that gets beyond the scoreboard, numbers only focus of his approach: "Don't you think that they might have lessons to teach all of us?" Aside from visitation numbers, the only other selection criteria is that the nonprofit must be listed in Guidestar.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

If your fundraising plan doesn’t include a strategy for finding, cultivating, and asking major donors for a large donation, you’re missing out on some big gifts for your small nonprofit. Larger gifts equal more net revenue which means you can do more good. It’s the old 80/20 rule at work: Over 80% of all funds come from about 20% of donors.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Some of the folks that do a really great job of taking pictures in the field are the folks at Charity Water. And the folks, again, Charity Water, they kind of know how to do this. And a lot of people who give to Charity Water are really proud of the fact that we give to Charity Water, and we love how they treat us.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. So more than 80% of all this money that’s donated to charities comes from people, comes from people. But you can just do.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Flip the script from “ Look what you made me do ” to “Look what you did.” You can even get creative in this department, either with a matching gift or asking users to help crowdfund for a promotion, as charity: water did on a 2015 campaign for the BioSand Filter — adding a little seasonal touch to get people further into the spirit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Very social, very entertaining, always at a fundraiser or charity event. And so I’ll do like a script with them. I found out more about him, looking at his Twitter profile, than any other database social media profile, white papers. I was ready, ready with the conversation. He was actually shocked I knew so much.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 10, 2022

The target length of the video and the production requirements (equipment, script, locations) will help determine a timeline. Videogame livestreamers fundraise for charities on Facebook , and Zoom added a donate button. It could be live or pre-recorded, produced in-house or outsourced. Distribute and promote.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

Follow a prepared script. Gather your staff’s best writers to craft the script to discuss all of the important metrics and accomplishments that you want to highlight in your annual report. Charity: Water 2021 Annual Report Charity: Water has perfected the art of the minimalist annual report design.

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